Splendor,
Lombard is old, worn synthetics - Brunswick Anvilane.  In past years at the Chicagoland Open, they have played fairly tight.  The high end (older lanes) hooks more than the low end.  If you remember how they played last year, it's fairly likely that they will play close to that this year.  I'll find out tonight - bowling at 9:00.

Perhaps I'll see you out there some time this weekend.

Good luck!
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RW (THB)

My experience has been the opposite of Jeremy's. During my times at the Chicagoland Open and at the pyramid sweeper, I've found success trying to play deep. The straight lines look tempting, but it just doesn't seem to offer consistency or forgiveness.

I bowled 2 qualifying squads for this year's event, the 7:30 and 9 p.m. squads on Thursday night. For the 7:30 p.m. squad, I tried to play my Seek & Destroy pretty straight up between second and third. If eveything was perfect, I was fine. If I missed at all to either side, or my speed was off, split or wash-out city. I went -60 something and only made $30 after laying out $155.

For the second set, I switched to The One, moved to around fourth arrow and had a great look. Went +80 on the board, plus $345. I just missed being the top Thursday qualifier and winning that extra $100.

I know that everyone's game is different, but if you're struggling from the straighter lines, don't be afraid of going in and wheeling the ball. I'm hoping that doing so will send me into the finals to play for the big bucks.

Good luck to everyone who has bowled and who will be bowling. I hope we can have a lot of ballreviews representation in Monday's semis and finals!
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I've only bowled 300, but I've benched 345 : )
 I provide the muscle for the Fellowship of the Saws  

I put up a +13 Sunday at noon.  Played basically straight up the third arrow the whole set.  The cut was +8, so I'm getting ready now to head back out there.  
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Stop trying to impress others people, people mostly care about what your saying about them not you.

I don't really know what the shot was.  I still have a lot to learn.  Maybe Rick or Gene have a better idea of what was out there exactly.  The only thing I know for sure is that there was very little recovery outside and very little room for error.
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Check out my bowling journal!
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Stop trying to impress others people, people mostly care about what your saying about them not you.

Hey Toe....

I cant say a bad thing about the guy who beat me. He sacked up and got his strikes. I didn't!  

I was using a leverage drilled V2 at 4000 abralon. I guess by saying straight i mean 8 boards vs the usual 20 board THS.

There was a pretty small volume of oil so there was plenty of free hook, the key was not to loop it through the heads but to throw to a break point. You had to do this without hitting it too much or it would read the midlane HARD. If you kept a strong "Soft" hand you were ok.

It was tough but hittable. You just had to make shots.

As far as corpus....Time will tell..........

Dale
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Edited on 5/30/2006 7:45 AM

Nope!!!

After I realized that I gave away $1000 by losing...I needed to leave. I told em to mail me the check.

Dale
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Keith Kroll
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